February 15, 2017 – The Open Education Consortium announces the 2017 winners of OER & Project Awards for Open Education Excellence.

The Open Education Awards Committee, populated by educators and open education advocates from around the world, reviews and selects winners. Open Educational Resources and Projects are produced in a variety of languages and developed by institutions and organizations committed to increasing access to high quality education for everyone.

The Open Education Consortium is pleased to recognize these institutions and organizations as well as the resources, projects and initiatives they have contributed to free and open education.

Congratulations to the following 2017 Open Education Awards for Excellence WINNERS!

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AWARDS

OER Awards is a new expanded category in the Open Education Awards for Excellence this year. This new category recognizes resources beyond courses and sites fostering the wide variety of innovative OER being developed around the world. This year’s winners are:

PROJECT AWARDS

Project awards recognize the efforts that support the production, use and/or promotion of Open Education in ways other than the creation and use of material resources. Awards are granted in two categories: Creative Innovation & Open Research.

CREATIVE INNOVATIONS

The Creative Innovation award recognizes a new approach to Open Education. Ideas or solutions that present a new way of thinking and substantially improve the discoverability, presentation, usability, accessibility or availability of openness in education. The award is granted to four wonderful initiatives this year:

Open Research Award recognizes excellence in research studies about open education and/or related areas. Studies that help advance our understanding and demonstrate effectiveness related to challenges in OER. The OEC is honored to grant this distinction to two projects this year:

The Open Education Awards for Excellence provide annual recognition to outstanding contributions in the Open Education community. These awards recognize distinctive Open Educational Resources, Open Projects & Initiatives, as well as exemplary leaders in Open Education worldwide. The awards are presented each year at the Open Education Global Conference.

About the Open Education Consortium

The Open Education Consortium is a global network of educational institutions, individuals and organizations that support an approach to education based on openness, including collaboration, innovation and collective development and use of open educational materials.
The Open Education Consortium (OEC) is an independent not-for-profit (501.c.3) organization incorporated in 2008 under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States of America.

Activities of the Open Education Consortium are supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, member dues, and contributions from sustaining members including: African Virtual University, Fundação Getulio Vargas – FGV Online, Japan OCW Consortium, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Korea OCW Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NetEase Open Courses, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, Open University Netherlands, Taiwan Open Course Consortium, Tecnológico de Monterrey, TU Delft, Tufts University, UNIVERSIA, Universidad Politécnica Madrid, University of California, Irvine, University of Michigan.